Looks like we have a new 2D fighter on our hands. Alongside The King of Fighters XII (yes War, I said XII), you can try out BlazBlue! Well, Japanese owners can.

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Guilty Gear developers Arc System Works dropped BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger in Japanese arcades last November. Today, a console port has been announced, with the 2D fighting game coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The latest issue of Famitsu Weekly breaks the news that BlazBlue will make the jump to consoles this Summer. So far, that's only for the Japanese audience. Failing a North American or European localization—which we're assuming someone will be smart enough to pick up—an import may be in order.

1UP's recount of the Famitsu story notes that the home version of BlazBlue will add a substantial single-player story mode, one touted to take 30 hours to complete.

The game will also get a boost from its arcade version with full online multiplayer support, downloadable content and an animated sequence from anime studio GONZO.

Update #1: Confirmed to be coming to NA around the same time as the Japanese port.

QUOTEShortly after Arc System Works said BlazBlue was being developed for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in Japan Aksys stepped forward with an announcement for North America. Aksys will bring the high resolution 2D fighter stateside this summer which is right around when Japan gets the console port. A specific date has not been announced for any region.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is being called a spiritual successor to Guilty Gear. The team that built Guilty Gear made BlazBlue, but the new game features none of the offbeat characters that made the Guilty Gear series famous. Technical elements like instant kill attacks live on under new names like Astral Heat. With Street Fighter IV already in stores and the King of Fighters XII coming this summer this year is shaping up to be one brawl after another.

I heard rumors before that there was going a PS3 version, but the 360 makes it even accessible.
There's actually an error in that article. It WAS made available for American arcades. It says so on ASW's english site for the game.

G4's X-play had an interview with one of the producers of the game, and he says that it'll be coming to North America in the summer as well, with online play. Looks like I'll be getting a 360 sooner than I thought.....

G4's X-play had an interview with one of the producers of the game, and he says that it'll be coming to North America in the summer as well, with online play. Looks like I'll be getting a 360 sooner than I thought.....

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Updated the 1st post with this info. Comes out around the same time as the Japan port. Awesome.